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Shade Loving Plants & Flowers for your Front & Back Yards Landscape

The flowers that bloom well in the shade garden

Do you have a lot of shade on your property? Live in a wooded area or have large, street trees? Think you can't grow any flowers? Don't despair! Consider this a wonderful opportunity to create the peace and serenity a shade garden can offer.

Jobe's Landscape will assist our residential and commercial clients achieve successful plantings in the shade. We can design, plan, plant and install and then maintain your shady site.

The following is a list of some of the most popular perennial ground covers, flowers and plants that thrive under the branches of your trees.

Botanical Name

Common Name

Height x Width

Light Requirements

Bloom Time

Flower Cutting

Aconitum

Monkshood

3-4' x 2'

Part to full Shade

Mid/late summer

Yes

Vinca Minor

Periwinkle

6' spreading

Part to full Shade

Spring

No

Convallaria Majalus

Lily-of-the-Valley

6'-8' spreading

Part to full Shade

Spring

No

Ajuga Reptans

Common Bugleweed

2-4' spreading

Part to full Shade

Spring

No

Galium Odoratum

Sweet Woodruff

6" spreading

Part to full Shade

Spring

No

Pachsandra terminalis

Japanese Spurge

6-8" spreading

Part to full Shade

Spring

No

Hostas - Great, low-maintenance shade plants

Aruncus aethusifolius

Dwarf Goatsbeard

1' x 1.5'

Part to full Shade

Early Summer

No

Astilbe

False Spirea

1'-4' x 2'3'

Part shade

Early, mid, late summer

Yes

Dicentra Spectabilis

Bleeding Heart

2-3' x 2-3'

Part to full Shade

Late Spring

Yes

Heuchera

Coral Bells

6-8'-2-3' x 1'6-8'-2-3' x 1'

Part shade

Summer

Yes

Heucherella

Foamy Bells

15-18" x 1'

Part to full Shade

Summer

Ligularia

Golden Groundsel

3-4' x 2-3'

Part to full Shade

Mid to late summer

Yes

Lobelia

Cardinal Flower

3-4' X 2-3'

Part to full Shade

Polemonium caeruleum

Jacob's Ladder

1.5-2' x 1'

Part to full Shade

Late spring/early summer

Polygonatum odoratum

Varigated Solomon's

2-3' x 2'

Part to full Shade

Late spring

Yes

var. thunbergii Seal 'Variegatum' Pulmonaria

Lungwort

8-15' x18'

Part to full shade

Early spring

Adiantum Athyrium

Matteuccia

Osmunda

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